2026 International Symposium

Many product safety failures originate not in the product itself, but in the organisational processes behind it: complaints are missed, risks are not properly assessed, products cannot be traced, and corrective actions remain unclear.

As product safety legislation increasingly requires businesses to establish internal product safety procedures, regulators face a growing challenge: how can they make complex regulatory expectations understandable and scalable in fast-moving global and e-commerce markets?

This session explores how the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) translated inspection logic into an anonymous self-inspection approach designed to help businesses reflect on product safety governance throughout the product lifecycle.

Using selected examples from the self-inspection approach, the session will illustrate how product safety can look very different once the focus shifts from products to organisational processes.